Hi everyone, hope Y'all having a better day than I am.
I don't know how I get myself into these situations... but... here it goes...
Five moths ago (late December 2008) I bought the BFG GeForce 9800GTX OC graphics card,
during that time I wasn't doing any gaming. Then in January I was plaing NFS Carbon when, on
exiting the game my PSU exploded (with a loud BANG!). My PC configuration was:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Processor (3GHz, no overclocking)
BFG Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX OC Video Card (700mhz on Core, 1100 mhz on memory and 1728 mhz on shader, factory overclocked)
4x1GB PQI Turbo memory (all DDR 2 - 800)
750 GB Western Digital Caviar SATA II Hard Drive
40GB IDE Hard Drive
M2N32 SLI Deluxe Motherboard WiFi Edition
3x 120mm, 3x 80mm Case fans, 1x CPU fan, 1x GPU fan and 2x PSU fans
550 Watt PSU, with 25 AMPS on the +12V rail
Windows Vista Ultime 64-bit Operating System
After a few weeks I found a solution, I had an old PSU (a generic 450 Watt with 22 Amps on
the single +12V rail) but the auxiliary 4-pin connector was burned off so I got my old pc
(specs below) which had a 350 Watt PSU with 13 Amps on the +12V rail and connected them up.
I was relieved to see that nothing was damaged. The connections were a bit complicated but
the two power supplies powered the following:
450 Watt with 22 Amps on the +12V rail:
1) Main motherboard power connector (24-pin)
2) Graphics card (via a 2x 4-pin to 1x 6-pin converter)
3) 2x 120mm fans
350 Watt with 13 Amps on the +12V rail:
1) 4-pin connector to main PC
2) Both hard drives (via a 1x 4-pin to 2x SATA II converter and a standard molex for IDE)
3) Optical drive
1) The old computer (20-pin)
- I unplugged all the other connectors except the 20-pin main connector (because this was
needed to start the computer & power supply which then delivered power through the 4-pin auxiliary
connector to the main PC)
The old pc specs are:
1) AMD Duron 950 processor
2) 1x 256 MB DDR (shared due to int. graphics)
3) Int. graphics
I was constantly receiving a low voltage from the 450W so I moved most things over to the
350W (this was more stable, but still low) I tried to reduce the system's power consumption
by:
Removing:
1) 2x 1 GB of RAM
2) 1x 120mm case fan, 3x 80mm case fans
3) Enabling AMD's cool n' quite feature of the Processor
4) Enabling Vista's balanced power scheme
The system ran like this for 5 months from January to May, then I managed to save enough money to buy a new power supply, this was a Logisys 650 Watt with 44 Amps on two +12V rails (i.e 22 Amps on +12V1 and 22 Amps on +12V2).
After I connected it up in my system it booted up just fine then after about ~4 minutes on
the desktop the screen went berserk, the screen became flooded with artifacts. I immediately
rebooted the PC via the reset button but as the monitor came on after the system posted I
could see the artifacts on the screen before the OS was even loaded, which by this time was
Windows 7 Beta version Build 7068 32-bit. When I logged in win7 switched to basic mode with
no aero and when I opened GPU-Z a lot of information about the card was missing, the core,
memory and shader all read 0 mhz.
Sorry if theres too much info but this is a serious problem because my motherboard does not
have integrated graphics and it would be too costly to buy a new graphics card of equivalent performance, so there is
no way for me to use the pc as the artifact are unbearable but when I take a screenshot via the 'Print Screen SysRq' button there are no artifacts, at this moment I'm using the old Duron to type this. Any form of advice is greatly appreciated.
I don't know how I get myself into these situations... but... here it goes...
Five moths ago (late December 2008) I bought the BFG GeForce 9800GTX OC graphics card,
during that time I wasn't doing any gaming. Then in January I was plaing NFS Carbon when, on
exiting the game my PSU exploded (with a loud BANG!). My PC configuration was:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Processor (3GHz, no overclocking)
BFG Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX OC Video Card (700mhz on Core, 1100 mhz on memory and 1728 mhz on shader, factory overclocked)
4x1GB PQI Turbo memory (all DDR 2 - 800)
750 GB Western Digital Caviar SATA II Hard Drive
40GB IDE Hard Drive
M2N32 SLI Deluxe Motherboard WiFi Edition
3x 120mm, 3x 80mm Case fans, 1x CPU fan, 1x GPU fan and 2x PSU fans
550 Watt PSU, with 25 AMPS on the +12V rail
Windows Vista Ultime 64-bit Operating System
After a few weeks I found a solution, I had an old PSU (a generic 450 Watt with 22 Amps on
the single +12V rail) but the auxiliary 4-pin connector was burned off so I got my old pc
(specs below) which had a 350 Watt PSU with 13 Amps on the +12V rail and connected them up.
I was relieved to see that nothing was damaged. The connections were a bit complicated but
the two power supplies powered the following:
450 Watt with 22 Amps on the +12V rail:
1) Main motherboard power connector (24-pin)
2) Graphics card (via a 2x 4-pin to 1x 6-pin converter)
3) 2x 120mm fans
350 Watt with 13 Amps on the +12V rail:
1) 4-pin connector to main PC
2) Both hard drives (via a 1x 4-pin to 2x SATA II converter and a standard molex for IDE)
3) Optical drive
1) The old computer (20-pin)
- I unplugged all the other connectors except the 20-pin main connector (because this was
needed to start the computer & power supply which then delivered power through the 4-pin auxiliary
connector to the main PC)
The old pc specs are:
1) AMD Duron 950 processor
2) 1x 256 MB DDR (shared due to int. graphics)
3) Int. graphics
I was constantly receiving a low voltage from the 450W so I moved most things over to the
350W (this was more stable, but still low) I tried to reduce the system's power consumption
by:
Removing:
1) 2x 1 GB of RAM
2) 1x 120mm case fan, 3x 80mm case fans
3) Enabling AMD's cool n' quite feature of the Processor
4) Enabling Vista's balanced power scheme
The system ran like this for 5 months from January to May, then I managed to save enough money to buy a new power supply, this was a Logisys 650 Watt with 44 Amps on two +12V rails (i.e 22 Amps on +12V1 and 22 Amps on +12V2).
After I connected it up in my system it booted up just fine then after about ~4 minutes on
the desktop the screen went berserk, the screen became flooded with artifacts. I immediately
rebooted the PC via the reset button but as the monitor came on after the system posted I
could see the artifacts on the screen before the OS was even loaded, which by this time was
Windows 7 Beta version Build 7068 32-bit. When I logged in win7 switched to basic mode with
no aero and when I opened GPU-Z a lot of information about the card was missing, the core,
memory and shader all read 0 mhz.
Sorry if theres too much info but this is a serious problem because my motherboard does not
have integrated graphics and it would be too costly to buy a new graphics card of equivalent performance, so there is
no way for me to use the pc as the artifact are unbearable but when I take a screenshot via the 'Print Screen SysRq' button there are no artifacts, at this moment I'm using the old Duron to type this. Any form of advice is greatly appreciated.